From: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: COMDAT group names become anonymouse local symbols
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBFC470.5060202@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mcrpqv42w6s.fsf@google.com>
On 10/20/2010 6:04 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> The gas behaviour makes sense in that it gives you a slightly smaller
> object file, although that is partially offset by the need for the
> linker to do extra work to dig up the section name from .shstrtab rather
> than the symbol name from .strtab. But I agree that it does not meet
> the letter of the ELF standard.
So, would a patch to make GAS create a local symbol for the group name
be acceptable? Or would it be rejected on the grounds that it makes
object files bigger?
Thanks,
--
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery
mark@codesourcery.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-21 4:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 20:08 Mark Mitchell
2010-10-20 18:05 ` Cary Coutant
2010-10-20 18:19 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 6:12 ` Cary Coutant
2010-10-21 0:18 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-21 0:31 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 1:04 ` Ian Lance Taylor
2010-10-21 4:41 ` Mark Mitchell [this message]
2010-10-21 5:19 ` H.J. Lu
2010-10-21 5:27 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 5:41 ` H.J. Lu
2010-10-21 5:42 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 6:24 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-21 16:41 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 18:50 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-10-21 20:22 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 22:19 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-21 22:41 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-21 23:11 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-22 3:23 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-22 4:33 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-22 6:10 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-22 7:16 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-22 15:34 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-23 8:16 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-23 18:05 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-24 1:15 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2010-10-24 1:43 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-24 3:50 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2010-10-24 4:34 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-25 11:45 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2010-10-25 12:39 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-25 15:22 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-26 3:45 ` Alan Modra
2010-10-26 15:48 ` Dave Korn
2010-10-26 15:49 ` Mark Mitchell
2010-10-26 15:59 ` Dave Korn
2010-10-26 16:12 ` Dave Korn
2010-10-21 2:12 ` Alan Modra
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